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Secunia Security Advisory 21893

Secunia Security Advisory 21893
Posted Sep 13, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple QuickTime, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

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Secunia Security Advisory 21893

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TITLE:
Apple QuickTime Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21893

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21893/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Apple QuickTime 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/5090/

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple QuickTime, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) Errors in the processing of H.264 movies can be exploited to
trigger an integer overflow or buffer overflow.

2) A boundary error within the processing of QuickTime movies can be
exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

3) A boundary error within the processing of FLC movies can be
exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a FLC movie with
a specially crafted COLOR_64 chunk.

4) Errors within the processing of FlashPix files can be exploited to
cause an integer overflow or buffer overflow.

5) An error within the processing of FlashPix files can be exploited
to trigger an exception leaving an uninitialised object.

6) A boundary error within the processing of SGI images can be
exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.1.3.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) Sowhat of Nevis Labs, Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs, and Piotr
Bania.
2) Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs.
3) Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs and Ruben Santamarta.
4) Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs.
5) Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs.
6) Mike Price of McAfee AVERT Labs

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304357

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=413

Reverse Mode:
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=25

Piotr Bania:
http://pb.specialised.info/all/adv/quicktime-integer-overflow-h264-adv-7.1.txt

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About:
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